I have a little problem trying to setup or install Rotk 5. I installed rotk 3 and 4 easily. All i did was click a application and it installed for me. But on the Rotk files i couldn't find any Install or setup applications. I clicked all the ones were there and all they did was show a black screen.

I don't know about those games specifically, but if they're DOS games, and you're sure you've got all the right files, then it's always good to try DOSBox.

I just wanted to tell everybody about D-Fend Reloaded. It's a frontend GUI for DOSBox, it's great for keeping all your DOS games in one place, and it's really easy to use. The wizard for adding new games is terrific, particularly if they're SCUMMVM compatible, in that case it's like three clicks and you're off. I also used it recently for the great Sierra game Conquests of the Longbow. Setup was a snap and I was able to play it all the way through, though it crashed a couple of times. This program has provided a great excuse for me to rediscover all the great old DOS games that have been collecting dust on my shelf.

Mithril! The dwarves tell no tales. But just as it was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction. They delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled.

One of my biggest complaints about DOSBox is the hassle of having to mount the drive and look for my games every time I use it. This solves my problem!

Conquests of the Longbow is one of the greatest games of all times. At one point I knew the whole opening song/verse by heart. I still play it from time to time trying to get the elusive last few points.

"Whatever you do, don't fall off the bridge! It'll be a pain to try to get back up again." - Private, DW 8

Lady Wu wrote:Conquests of the Longbow is one of the greatest games of all times. At one point I knew the whole opening song/verse by heart. I still play it from time to time trying to get the elusive last few points.

Yes, it's really outstanding, particularly the story & dialogue. The instruction manual (which I still have ) is a work of art.

Fun fact: Sierra was so anal about "branding" that it usually insisted on its adventure games having the word "quest" in the title. So, in addition to King's Quest 5, Police Quest 3, etc., you got names like Conquests of the Longbow, and Laura Bow in: The Colonel`s Bequest. Heh heh.

Mithril! The dwarves tell no tales. But just as it was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction. They delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled.

. . .There is also an error afflicting some users of DOSBox where you are able to create, save and add characters, and then adventure, and save, but on returning later, your savegame is corrupted, with all six slots taken up by one character, and the name of your save folder having the last letter removed. I have reported this to DOSBox and according to one of the authors they are treating it as a bug and are seeking a fix. . . .

Adrian

I am having exactly the "corrupted savegame" problem you described here with Pool of Radiance running in DOSBox (v0.70), except my computer is running Vista Home Premium instead of XP. Have the DOSBox people come up with a fix for this bug? (I had to apologize to my kids when I learned this wasn't their fault! )

. . .There is also an error afflicting some users of DOSBox where you are able to create, save and add characters, and then adventure, and save, but on returning later, your savegame is corrupted, with all six slots taken up by one character, and the name of your save folder having the last letter removed. I have reported this to DOSBox and according to one of the authors they are treating it as a bug and are seeking a fix. . . .

Adrian

I am having exactly the "corrupted savegame" problem you described here with Pool of Radiance running in DOSBox (v0.70), except my computer is running Vista Home Premium instead of XP. Have the DOSBox people come up with a fix for this bug? (I had to apologize to my kids when I learned this wasn't their fault! )

Sorry for the late reply, I'm not here all the time as I used to be in the past. As far as I can tell, the bug has not been fixed. My recommendation? Get MoSloWin. Yeah, it's not freeware, it's like $20 or something. But, it lets you play PoR without needing DOSbox because, unless something has changed in Vista vs XP, the only incompatibility is really the speed issue. If you can slow it down to a manageable speed (around 8-10% seemed to work well for me, but will vary with your processor), the game should be plenty playable. I beat it on XP using just MoSloWin.

Just got the classic Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (full speech version) to work in DOSBox...thought I'd post the solution here in case it helps anyone else.

Oddly, even though I had the original CD, the game kept crashing after the first scene. The file RESOURCE.CFG is the problem -- the version that the game installs somehow has pathnames that point to all the wrong directories. You should change it to this:

notice the relative pathnames -- much better. After that, just run Install.exe and select VESA, Soundblaster for music, and Soundblaster for audio (speech), and use Sierra.exe to run. These tips might help with other Sierra games, too.

Mithril! The dwarves tell no tales. But just as it was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction. They delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled.

Tigger of Kai wrote:Just got the classic Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (full speech version) to work in DOSBox...thought I'd post the solution here in case it helps anyone else.

Oddly, even though I had the original CD, the game kept crashing after the first scene. The file RESOURCE.CFG is the problem -- the version that the game installs somehow has pathnames that point to all the wrong directories. You should change it to this:

notice the relative pathnames -- much better. After that, just run Install.exe and select VESA, Soundblaster for music, and Soundblaster for audio (speech), and use Sierra.exe to run. These tips might help with other Sierra games, too.

Yeah, this is the one thing I don't like about DosBox. The fact that you are assigning a directory the status of C: drive for the purpose of the program messes up anything that uses specific pathnames. It's pretty much impossible to transfer characters from one game to the next in the Gold Box series using DosBox because of that.

Also - and perhaps you've seen this - but I thought GK:SOTF is available form GOG now? Or maybe that's a different GK game I saw advertised. Pretty sure it was SOTF though, since they sent me an email about it...